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Do you think that what H L Mencken wrote 70 years ago, about politics, still hold true today, or has politics changed?

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  • 2 years ago

    Mencken had it right and there has been no change.

  • 2 years ago

    Mencken said a lot of things. Do you have a particular quote in mind or just his general tenor?

  • 2 years ago

    I think it does, a couple of them are:

    "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

    And, "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it."

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